[gst-devel] Notes about docs/random/negotiation

Benjamin Otte in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de
Mon Dec 29 16:12:04 CET 2003


:p
Nice that you answer all the questions after I wrote the solutions ;)

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, David Schleef wrote:

> Elements don't need a src_link() function to use try_set_caps().
>
Every pad that has non-fixed template caps needs a src_link or a get_caps
function, because the sink may do renego.
Every pad that has fixed template caps doesn't need to call try_set_caps.
Therefore every element that uses try_set_caps but doesn't have a src_link
function is broken.

Benjamin





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